KineticHub – Animated Blocks
KineticHub is a lightweight suite of animated Gutenberg blocks for designers, agencies, developers, and site builders who want to add motion, media, and interactive UI effects to WordPress pages without leaving the block editor. The plugin includes visual blocks for animated typography, video modals, audio players, before-and-after image comparisons, marquees, interactive buttons, hero backgrounds, scroll dividers, split scroll layouts, cursor reveal lists, ambient visuals, and motion-ready containers. KineticHub is designed for modern WordPress workflows. Blocks can be inserted, configured, and reused directly inside the editor, while frontend assets are loaded through WordPress block asset registration. Use KineticHub to build: Animated landing page sections Portfolio and agency pages Interactive hero areas Product and service highlights Editorial layouts with motion Media-rich Gutenberg pages Lightweight visual effects without a page builder dependency View demos and documentation at: https://getkinetichub.com KineticHub includes 13 Gutenberg blocks. The full block list is available in the Blocks section below. Performance Focused KineticHub is designed to avoid unnecessary page weight and unnecessary frontend execution. Block assets are loaded through WordPress block asset registration. Shared runtime behavior is handled by lightweight frontend assets. Video embeds are initialized lazily after user interaction where supported by the block setup. Motion-heavy effects respect reduced-motion preferences. Global motion settings can be configured from the KineticHub dashboard. Blocks are designed to work with modern WordPress themes and performance optimization tools. Accessibility KineticHub includes accessibility-oriented behavior across supported blocks. Reduced-motion support for users who prefer less animation. Keyboard focus handling where interactive controls are used. Screen-reader friendly fallback text for animated typography. ARIA labels for video modal controls. Semantic output and escaped server-side rendering. Interactive blocks are designed to remain usable without relying only on motion. External Services The plugin does not connect to external services on activation. Some blocks may load third-party media only when a site administrator configures content that uses those providers. For example, the Kinetic Video Modal block can embed videos from YouTube or Vimeo when a YouTube or Vimeo URL is entered by the site administrator. Third-party services may receive visitor data when embedded media is loaded by the browser. This depends on the configured media URL, the provider used, and the visitor’s browser behavior. Supported optional video providers include: YouTube YouTube NoCookie Vimeo Self-hosted media files can also be used. Provider endpoints that may be used when configured by the site administrator: YouTube video embeds: https://www.youtube.com/ YouTube privacy-enhanced embeds: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/ YouTube thumbnail images: https://img.youtube.com/ Vimeo video embeds: https://player.vimeo.com/ Provider policies: YouTube Terms of Service: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms YouTube Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy Vimeo Terms of Service: https://vimeo.com/terms Vimeo Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy Source Code This plugin includes compiled JavaScript and CSS generated with npm and WordPress build tools. The human-readable free-version source files used to build the distributed assets are publicly available here: https://github.com/GetKineticHub/kinetichub-free-source/tree/wporg-free-source-1.1.0 The public source branch includes the uncompiled free-version source files, package.json, webpack configuration, and build instructions for the JavaScript and CSS assets included in the distributed build/ directory. Build Instructions The plugin uses the standard WordPress block build pipeline based on @wordpress/scripts. To rebuild the distributed assets from the public source branch: Clone the public source repository. Check out the matching source branch: wporg-free-source-1.1.0 Install build dependencies: npm install Generate production assets: npm run build The build process compiles source files from the source repository into a build directory using the included webpack configuration. Build Requirements Node.js 18 or later npm 9 or later
Leaflet Map
Add a map generated with LeafletJS: an open-source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Map tiles are provided by default through OpenStreetMap, or MapQuest (with an app key). Can be set per map with shortcode attributes or through the dashboard settings. Maps Simply create a map with: [leaflet-map] Lookup an address with: [leaflet-map address="chicago"] When using the OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder, the plugin sends a contact email in the request user agent. By default this uses the site admin email, but you can override it in the plugin settings or with the leaflet_map_nominatim_contact_email filter. add_filter('leaflet_map_nominatim_contact_email', function ($email) { return 'maps@example.com'; }); Know the latitude and longitude of a location? Use them (and a zoom level) with: [leaflet-map lat=44.67 lng=-63.61 zoom=5] Add a marker under your map shortcode, like so: [leaflet-map] [leaflet-marker] Want more? Make more (and fit the map to contain all of them): [leaflet-map fitbounds] [leaflet-marker address="tokyo"] [leaflet-marker address="oslo"] [leaflet-marker address="cairo"] [leaflet-marker address="toronto"] You can even add popups (to any shape) with their names: [leaflet-map fitbounds] [leaflet-marker address="tokyo"]Tokyo[/leaflet-marker] [leaflet-marker address="oslo"]Oslo[/leaflet-marker] ... Add a link to the popup messages the same way you would add any other link with the WordPress editor. Other Shapes, GeoJSON, and KML Add a line to the map by adding [leaflet-line]. You can specify the postions with a list separated by semi-colon ; or bar | using lat/lng: [leaflet-line latlngs="41, 29; 44, 18"] or addresses: [leaflet-line addresses="Istanbul; Sarajevo"], or x/y coordinates for image maps. Add a circle to the map by adding [leaflet-circle]. You can specify the position using lat and lng and the radius in meters using radius. You can also customize the style using Leaflet’s Path options. Example: [leaflet-circle message="max distance" lng=5.117909610271454 lat=52.097914814706094 radius=17500 color="#0DC143" fillOpacity=0.1]. Or you can add a geojson shape via a url (make sure you are allowed to access it if it’s not hosted on your own server): [leaflet-geojson src="https://example.com/path/to.geojson"]. Add custom popups with field names; try out the default src file and fields like so: [leaflet-map fitbounds] [leaflet-geojson]{name}[/leaflet-geojson] name is a property on that GeoJSON, and it can be accessed with curly brackets and the property name. Image Maps Alternatively, you could use a plain image for visitors to zoom and pan around with [leaflet-image src="path/to/image/file.jpg"]. See screenshots 3 – 5 for help setting that up. More Check out other examples on the Shortcode Helper page in the Leaflet Map admin section. Check out the source code and more details on GitHub!
